AUBURN, Alabama -- Before Emory Blake left the field at Jordan-Hare Stadium, he walked over to quarterback Kiehl Frazier, pulled him close and offered some encouragement.

Frazier, a first-year starter who has been under intense scrutiny the first couple of weeks, needed to hear some encouragement.

"I told him he played his heart out," Blake said. "And I told him to keep his head up."

Blake caught four passes for 56 yards, and on Auburn's second-to-last play of the game, he was open over the middle, but he settled down his route, and Frazier's pass missed as the quarterback tried to lead Blake over the middle.

"I saw him scrambling, so I hesitated," Blake said. "I was going to run back towards him or slow down so he didn't have to throw all the way across his body. The rule as a wide receiver is never to let a quarterback throw across his body."